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A69171	A treatise, touching Antichrist VVherein, the place, the time, the forme, the workmen, the vpholders, the proceeding, and lastly, the ruine and ouerthrow of the kingdome of Antichrist, is plainly laid open out of the word of God: where also manie darke, and hard places both of Daniell and the Reuelation are made manifest. By Lambert Danæus.; Tractatus de Antichristo. English	Daneau, Lambert, ca. 1530-1595?; Swan, John, d. 1617.	1589 (1589)	STC 6229; ESTC S111048	137,818	208

erected where a verie hard place of Daniell is expounded The 33. Chapter THirdly and lastly that which out of the former discourse is to be gathered is this that héere-after there remaineth no other Monarchie to be erected in the world after time that of Rome and this Image thereof that is the Romane Antichrist is decayed and so we may sée that what-so-euer was to come and fall out from the first beginning of Monarchies vnto the ende of the world was made knowne before-hand vnto Daniell Cap. 11. Therefore vpon the ende and accomplishment of those things which are spoken of in that Chapter immediatly the last resurrection is not only mentioned but also the estate and condition thereof to the great comfort of the godly is described Cap. 12. And yet should not the faithfull in regard héereof be the more slack in assaulting the kingdome of Antichrist as though their labour should be frustrate and to no purpose Nay assuredly their indeauours shall take good successe and by little and little they shall cast downe that which God would not haue to fall at a moment or without one blow Therfore they that do either sincerely preach or faithfully embrace the Gospell do dayly grinde waste knap off and to be short they alwayes diminishe some-what of the Antichristian kingdome But against this our third and last collection that seemeth to be obiected which is in Daniell Cap. 11. vers 40. and those that follow which are these verse 40 And at the ende of time shall the King of the South push at him and the King of the North shall come against him like a whirle-winde with Chariots and with horse-men and with many Ships and he shall enter into the Countries and shall ouer-flowe and passe through verse 41 He shall enter also into the pleasant land and many countries shall be ouerthrowen but these shall escape out of his hands Edom and Moab and the chief of the children of Amon. verse 42 He shall stretch forth his hand also vppon the countries and the land of Aegipt shall not escape verse 43 But he shall haue power ouer the treasures of Gold and Siluer and ouer all precious things of Aegipt and of the Lybians and of the Black-Moores where hee shall passe verse 44 But the tidings out of the East and the North shall trouble him therefore hee shall go foorth with great wrath to destroy and roote out manie verse 45 And hee shall plant the tabernacles of his palace betweene the Seas in the glorious and holie mountaine yet hee shal come to his ende and none shal helpe him This place of Daniell if any other be is doubtles verie intricate and obscure Wherby it hath happened that the iudgements of expositours haue bin discrepant and diuers among them-selues For some expounde it so as that they refer it vnto Tigrenes and Mithridatis who made inuasion vpon the Romane Empire Some againe had rather refer it vnto Antiochus And againe some vnto Pompey the great and Iulius Caesar But there bee many thinges which will not admit of anie of these interpretations The latter writers refer it onlie to the Kinges of Asia and Aegipt who are spoken of in al that chapter The which iudgement and interpretation as I doe not surelie reiect so am I withall resolute in this that those two Empires are tipes and figures to the Churche of such thinges as shoulde befall euen after the comming of Christ Therefore this is mine opinion First that those two Kingdomes whereof Daniell speaketh in the last place are neither said should be Monarchies neither are they so called but onlie kingdomes the which two shall ouerturne al whatsoeuer shall bee left remaining of the Romane Empire in the South and East And of these two Kingdomes or Kings the one saith Daniell shall come out of the South the other from the North. And this Northerne fellowe shall strike the greater terrour into this said Monarchie Yet both these Kings or Kingdomes shall with shippes Chariots and Horsemen that is by sea and land assaulte the fourth Monarchie and the remnaunts thereof And againe either of these Kings shall successiuelie one after an other lay hould vpon Aegipt that is subdue the same and thereof possesse great treasures of Gould and Siluer Lastlie they shall possesse Lybia that is the Region of Cyren and Aethiopia which is Arabia These pointes therefore I take to be vttered by Daniell as indifferentlie touching and concerning both the said Kingdomes but not respecting the fourth Monarchie and Kingdome of the Romans Afterward in the 44 verse these two kingdomes are compared together and that of the South is saide should be disturbed by that of the North which lieth Easternlie So that the Southerne Kingdome should be in time the first and that of the North the latter And as for both of them they shoulde pitch their tents betweene two Seas and the holie hill that is towards Iudaea but in the ende they shall come to their ende and finall destruction and none shall yeald them succour These things are thus set downe in Daniell the which if we doe vnderstand as some do expound them of Pompey and Caesar they are then most obscure and darke and nothing agreeing with the course of thinges that haue happened But being vnderstood as I haue directed then are they most plaine and agréeing with the issue of things that are done And to begin withall these thinges can at no hand bee referred to the Romans because they were first made possessours of Lybia and Affricke before they set foote in the holie Lande that is Judaea for so doeth Daniell according to the manner of his time call that Region as also their Neighbours and people bordering vppon them by their peculiar names such as were well knowne in those dayes the Ammonites and Moabites although his prophecie tendeth vnto those times and those things which he fore-sheweth should then be accomplished when as neither Iudaea should be called the pleasant land nor the Ammonites and Moabites should be tearmed by those names which point we are to obserue least otherwise these titles do trouble vs and least we thinke that those things where-of Daniell speaketh were to be taken and then only to be fullfilled while both Iudaea had as yet the promises of God and the Moabites were knowne by that name or title He speaketh therefore of those Regions but in that manner and with such names as where-by in those dayes they were knowne to the Iewes to whome he writeth But yet the things which he fore-telleth were then to come to passe when as neither Iudaea was any more the place of Gods rest nor the house that contained the people of God the which at the last fell out and came to passe after the Gospell was once published and Christ had suffered death This mine opinion is heereby confirmed for that he speaketh of such things as should fall out in the latter daies that is in the last age of the world after

compared with the euent or issue of things which is the best interpretour that can be of diuine Prophecies neither can the Spirit or true Prophet of God report an vntroath This is it therfore which I affirme which both is true and hath testimonie from stories that the Constantinopolitane or Easterly head and Empyre which remained of the fourth Monarchie was first impouerished by the Saracens in that part of the North which looketh towards the East but afterwards being made to stoope as more shrewdlie handled by them and brought to a low ebbe it was quite dasht and defaced by the Turkes We know by the Romane histories that there were deadlie and continuall warres betweene the Constantinopolitane Emperours and those of Parthia and after with the Persians who did succeede the Parthians For after the death of Alexander the great when as for a while the Parthians had liued vnder the obeysance of his successours namely the sonnes of King Saleucus they then began vnder the conduct of Arsaces by plucking their necke out of yoke to enfraunchize them selues into libertie and to reare vp a kingdome among them calling the Kings of the Parthians Arsacides after the name of their first Captaine These raigned vnto the time of Alexander sonne of Mammaeus Emperour of Rome and to the fourth yeare of his kingdome which was in the yeare after the birth of Christ 228. In which very yeare one Artaxerxes a Persian killed Artabanus King of the Parthians the last of the race of the Arsacides This man therefore snatching to himselfe the Empyre and kingdome of Parthia conueighed it vnto Persia And the posteritie of this Artaxerxes and Persian Empyre continued vnto the daies of Heraclius the first Emperour of Constantinople which was in the yere of Christ sixe hundred thirtie sixe and so lasted in the whole almost thrée hundred twentie nine yeares About this time now began the kingdome and Empyre of the Saracens For in the daies of Heraclius and Mahumetes raigned Syrochas the last Persian King saue one at whose hands Heraclius by composition recouered whatsoeuer his Auncestours had at any time before taken from the Empyre of Constantinople So these two kingdomes of the Parthians and of the Persians which mutually succeeded each other were terrible indeede for the time as appeareth by histories vnto the Romane Monarchie and to the Constantinopolitane Emperours but yet they neither sacked nor greatly shaked the Easterne or Constantinopolitane Empire nay the Emperours of Constantinople heald it out lustely with them at euen hand and stoutly made their part good against them But the first batterie that made the said Constantinopolitane Empire to stoupe was as I said in the East South and North perfourmed by the Sarracens who make the first of these two Kingdomes spoken of by Daniell which was to rise from the South and so spread it-selfe ouer the face of the earth in such sort as it should assaile the fourth Monarchie both by Sea and by land in Asia Syria and the North-East And in truth the Sarracens did so sore annoy the said Easterne Empire that it was neuer able afterwards to recouer it-selfe but began there-vpon by little and little to droupe and drop away for they with great expedition euen like lightning ouer-ranne Syria Cilicia Cappadocia and Mesopotamia all which prouinces they puld and possest from the Constantinopolitane Emperours where-in the verie words which Daniell vseth Cap. 11.40 speaking of the Kingdome of Sarracens are to be obserued This nation saith he shall come and shall ouerflowe and passe ouer and shall speedelie ouer-runne the countries of the East and South for so was it perfourmed by them after a verie strange and miraculous manner and with wonderfull expedition as the words of Daniell being ioined and set together do purport like vnto that speach of Iulius Caesar I approacht the place I viewed it well and got the field as if they did flie and were not stopt in their passage either by defenced Cities or deapth of Seas or force of men for within the compasse almost of threescore yeares the Sarracens became possessours of all the East as also of Aegipt Againe they ouer-ranne all Affricke and lastly tooke view of Spaine of whole Fraunce only the westerne people excepting only a part of Spain these Sarracens did rather assay then subdue thē but as for those of the East and South which pertained to the Constantinopolitane Empire by force and armes they made a plaine conquest of them and heald them in subiection as namely Aegipt and also Lybia which is Cyrene where-in for a great space they bare rule in so much as at that time the Sarracens hauing slaine Hormisda the last King of the Persians defaced vtterly the mightie Persian Empire They also made inuasion vpon Iudaea and that pleasant land which Daniell calleth the place of desire and grieuously afflicted the same for as then was Iudaea subiect vnto the christian Emperours to wit those of Constantinople In such sort as they heald the same in their possession a long time as they did Aegipt and enioyed the gold siluer and all the treasures that were to be desired of those nations by the space of 192. yeares and vnto the yeare of our Lord 1051. what time they were themselues vanquished by the Turks Nowe that the Sarracens are a Southerne people there is no man that is ignorant Thus therefore standeth that which Daniell affirmeth of the first kingdome which should ouerthrowe the Romane and fourth Monarchie and that in the East and South And this tempestuous stuxre happened in the world and came from the Southerne coast there-of where-as the Countries of the Agarens or Sarracens do lye Further this kingdome of the Sarracens pitched his tents betwéene those two Seas the Syriacke and the red Sea where of Daniell speaketh for they kept their princely pallaice and chiefe prouinces in that part of the world which is inclosed within these two Seas And where-as heere obiection is made that the Sarracens had two Emperiall places of abode the one at Babylon the other in Cairus which was Memphis a Citie of Aegipt it maketh no matter For the chiefe and principall regions of their Empire lay in that coast which is inclosed with those two Seas Againe their chiefe kingdome and longest regiment was in Syria and Arabia which by Daniell is called Aethiopia where is the Citie Meschita and the temple or sepulchre of that abhominable Mahumet But now we are to talke of the Turks to the end that this whole place of Daniell which no doubt is verie darke and obscure may be made manifest For these make that second Kingdome which was to rise out of the North-East and which vtterly brought to nought the fourth Monarchie in the East South and into the other regions which were enuironed with the foresaid Seas which also set foote into Aegipt opprest Iudaea and enioyed golde siluer and the pleasant things of the whole world by the space now almost of 300. yeares

These therefore wasted by Sea and land with wonderfull successe the Easternely head of the said fourth Monarchie And these also pitched their tents and kept their chiefe Pallaice place of residence in that part of the world which is inclosed within these two Seas where-of I haue spoken about the hill Taurus and Syria of Damascus before the comming of the Tartarians and before they had surprized Constantinople For in that part at first the greatest part of the Turkish Empire was established Now there is none that maketh doubt that the Turks are risen of the Scithians that dwell in the East And these were more terrible to the Romanes then were the Sarracens as also Daniell describeth who also are reported should succéede and in time to come after the said Sarracens for the kingdome that is said should come out of the North-East is spoken of by Daniell in the second place And this prophecie agreeth with the storie of things done For the Turks did suppresse the Empire of the Sarracens at what time they were by Hormisda King of Persia stirred vp and allured out of their countries and afterward which also Dan. fore-tould should come to passe they were made fellow-partners of the Empire by Mahumet the Sarracen being Sowdan of Persia Sogdiana and Media because he was not able to match in power with Calipha the Saracen of Babylon Thus therefore the Sarracens being set by the saddle the Turks enioyed the Empire and raigned in Asia Syria full out the tearme of 192. yeares but afterwards being molested by the Tartarians and Assumbeans Kings of the Parthians their power was some-what appalled and almost brought to the last cast After that in the yeare of our Lord 1300. vnder the raigne of Romanus Diogenes Emperour of Constantinople the house of Ottoman restored the Turkish Empire to his former dignitie the recouerie where-of was the full and finall ouerthrowe of the Easterne and Constantinopolitane Empire So the boundes of the Turkish Empire are now become the very same which were the limits of the Orientall Empire of the Romanes but as for the Occidentall and Italian he shall neuer say his fingers on it because this portion of the fourth Monarchie seemeth in the Reuel Cap. 13.12.13 c. to be allotted vnto Antichrist And where as it is further added in Daniell vers 45. that none should become an helper either to the Sarracens or to the Turks experience hath proued it true for God did so raise vp and aduance these Kingdomes as that they were not holpen by the power or furniture of any other forraigne nation nay they were rather hated of all others but they vsed and rested vppon their owne only aide and prouision wherein the worke of God appeareth the greater by the swift and suddaine promotion of these Kingdomes And it is sayd of Ismaell Genesis 16.12 of whome no doubt the Saracens are descended His hand shall be against euerie man and euerie mans hand against him he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren To conclude where-as the last obiection is made out of the Reuelation 20.8 touching Gog and Magog whiche should conspire with the false Prophet I confesse I am as yet ignorant what Nation is thereby signified Certaine it is that Gog is a prowde people such as are all the enemies of Christ and of the Church and this manner of speach is taken out of Ezech. 38. 39. And as for Magog it appeareth he came of Iaphet Genes 10.2 That the enlarging of the kingdome of Antichrist was in imitation of Christ to be perfourmed by these two meanes especially namely the publike preaching of a kinde of doctrine and the vauliting shewe of diuers miracles The 34. Chapter NOw followeth the seauenth head of this discourse to wit by what signes and meanes Antichrist was to establish and hold his outragious power and tyrannie We haue alreadie taken viewe of the wayes where-by he attained the same It pleased the Spirit of God that these points should be seuerally handled to the ende that the godly should be the lesse offended when they sée them accomplished both because they are brought to passe by the will of God for the triall of the faithfull and againe their comming was fore-tolde to strike the greater terrour into the hearts of the wicked Now Paule telleth vs héere with what aides and supporters this kingdome was heald vp and strengthned the which he maketh to be of two sorts the one chiefe and principall as the working of Sathan and that mightie and effectuall the other inferiour as seruing to the other which he calleth Signes and wonders but with-all he addeth what manner of ones they should be namely Lying and againe to what ende they tended to wit to deceiue men and hold them in all wickednesse and errour All which points containe in them both singular comforts and profitable considerations forewarnings of those things which afterward insued And touching the matter of consolations assuredly they are most sweete and behoouefull séeing there can nothing more acceptable be reported then that all those things which are done against the doctrine of Christ and that to the great admiration of men in such sort as that they should tearme them Miracles and Wonders are notwithstanding nothing else but detestable practises of Sathan and false miracles And as for fore-warnings this place is also furnisht with such where-by men are enabled to perceiue how it commeth to passe that all the world is so easily drawne into that errour For where-as some do indeede obserue the same they wonder and are astonied marueiling how such a thing could so easily be brought to passe And in the end thus they resolue vpon the matter saying except the religion of Antichrist which indeede is nothing else but a flat blasphemie were the true doctrine of God it would neuer haue bin so easily receiued nor established vpon such a suddaine but the aunswere is easie God had fore-tolde that all these things should thus come to passe and that he would giue such power vnto Sathan the which prophecie and with-all iust iudgement of God could not but be accomplished Now why God would haue it so and that vpon verie iust cause the reason shall be after rendred And to the ende this mine assertion might be throughlie strengthned I haue to alleadge a place very like vnto this out of Math. 24.24 And againe another which is in Reuel 16.14 And lastly the example of the Magitians and Enchaunters which resisted the truth as Paule alleadgeth 2. Tim. 3.9 all which do make plaine by what meanes the enemies of the heauenly truth haue alwaies withstoode the same so that we are not now to thinke it strange if this verie practise be ascribed to the pollicie of Antichrist and Sathan who hath in hand to worke this whole mysterie of iniquitie and to the sleights which he vseth in mainteining this his kingdome against the doctrine of Christ and indéede reason it-selfe doth yeeld no lesse